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I haven't had a chance to read everyone's posts yet. But let me give detail on what was going through my mind as I talked things over with Reg and Tom.

The early day 1 and multiple posts after stop. Gravy's was the worst. But my immediate reaction on all of them was, to do nothing. That was our decision. But Gravy actually contacted Tom and said he thought he should be modkilled. I talked it over with Gravy and in the process came to believe that players should meta him to be town because. So, at that point I leaned towards modkilling because an all but confirmed town player is a thorn for scum. A forced replace doesn't solve that. But a role scan could help mafia a lot. Particularly with this setup which seemed to prevent them from using their non-kill powers. Ultimately we decided that he wasn't confirmed town. But town should probably lean town on him if they did meta it.

That last line is how we then used the soft actions. We were trying to judge how the town would view the infraction. If something caused them to be more likely to view a player as town, we gave a soft action.

Chris' WTF post was immediately jumped on by Reg and Red. Red in the dead town chat and Reg in the hosting server. They both felt that it made Lea look town. I said if that post made Lea look like town, then extending that meta should make Ben and Firebolt look like town as well. We thought briefly about the actions just canceling out. Ultimately decided on a random role block and a flavor scan. The random role block was 10/40/50 chance to hit kill/bus/RB.

It's SUPER subjective. And was definitely clunky. I'm not ready to throw out the concept. I kind of lean towards announcing the penalty and punishing the player by saying something like you can't vote. But anything like that might be clunky too.

As Blade and Corrik commented, this really changes the balance of the game. I really like the balance of this game and it was torn up immediately. Ultimately I think it was won or lost in the topic which was the goal of the setup. But you can't deny how these powers changed the balance.

So at best it's a mixed bag at the moment.